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Richard Roud

1974 NYFF Preview: The Phantom of Liberty

By Richard Roud
October 2, 2015
From the September/October 1974 issue: advance praise for Luis Buñuel's visceral and surreal film, then titled The Spectre of Liberty

Louis Feuillade: Master of Melodrama

By Richard Roud
November 1, 1976
With Olivier Assaya’s Irma Vep deconstructing the very idea of the serial, revisit Richard Roud’s 1976 essay on Louis Feuillade, the man behind the original Les Vampires